Resilient architecture is one of the main responses to climate change and its effects: the resilience of a building is the ability of a system to absorb an external shock and quickly return to its initial state.

When a region is subjected to strong environmental pressures, resilience is important in the human factor, each of us should learn to be more resilient, reacting positively to the natural events, overcoming every difficulty. Instead of talking about it after a catastrophe, and always in an emergency, the time has come to prepare, making citizens, communities, buildings and cities more resilient.

In this way the residential model must also be resilient in these times, where all the materials are supported by this principle, maintaining their bio-compatibility, Eco-sustainability and comfort: each material must be bio-compatible, which means that it must be in balance with nature and ourselves, with external and internal comfort. Using natural materials we want people in their homes to feel better, more comfortable and safer.

The project idea starts from these principles to propose a building able to adapt easily in any extreme condition.

A small and compact house makes sense for a lot of reasons: less resources to build it, easy to store , smaller footprint on the land, and less energy to realize and operate.

This building seeks to manage available resources responsibly; designed to be significantly prefabricated it optimizes wood potential for such a project.

Systems have been kept simple - direct and largely passive; the life of the building is interactive with the energy it demands.

Maintenance accompanies complexity; the repetition of elements and systems expands upon a knowledge accessibly analyses, therefore system failure can be easily identified.

The shape of this building will be deliberately simple, compact and of low energy demand engages a more recent material with sensibility and style; its simplicity and order reinstate harmony and balance to form - whilst the maintenance of practical considerations is integral to its logical environmental approach.

The concept was to find a path that ignites the human spirit builds upon the fundamentals and engages materials with sensibility and style.

The design of this building form has direct correlation with the performance of itself. Optimum efficiencies are being created by managing both the source of all energies and the character of that energy.

Its outline is extruded based on modular structure, according to the selection of the linear direction of the section and the successive aggregation of elements that become the main component of the system.

This solution allows to obtain a compact shape without the presence of recesses and projections; in this way any elements of structural weakness are eliminated.

The structure is reinforced by reticular wooden beams positioned in the basement and in the roof; traversal iron bars reinforce the entire perimeter structure.

The house can float thanks to the presence recycled standard 55 gallon polyethylene drums located at the basement while a system of steel cables allows the house to remain anchored to the ground.

The house is made entirely of natural economic materials easily available, recycled and recyclable. The structure, the internal and external partitions and the fixtures are made of wood. The transparent surfaces are made of polycarbonate panels; the float system and the rainwater storage consists of recycled polyethylene drums.

Flexibility is significantly enhanced by the modular design. The interior is free from structure, so walls can easily be added or removed. The flexibility also gives residents choice in determining the layout which suits them best.

The dimensions of the interior spaces respect the design indications. The house is entered through a open space that contains the living room, the kitchen and the hallway. The bedroom is situated on the back. This solution creates a large open space where the couple or the family spends most of their time and a separate more intimate back space.

The bathroom contains a dry ecological toilet. Its use does not require the use of products for the disposal of the content: it is therefore also totally ecological. To perform its functions requires only a removable trash bag through an external flap.

Rainwater is stored in two tanks located in the kitchen and in the bathroom; it is filtered by a special system to feed the shower and the sinks.

The interiors are naturally illuminated thanks to the presence of large sliding glass openings located on the façades and on the roof in the central part of the building.

Modularity and prefabrication bring significant benefits in terms of flexibility, construction time, maintenance, cost certainty and quality. Adopting mass production techniques and procuring multiple units will significantly improve the economic viability of the scheme. Cheap and easily available materials have been chosen for the realization; in this way all deteriorated parts can easily be replaced.

Its weight allows it to be stable. Thanks to its design all the parts that compose it are easily dismantled.

Its design combined with the use of easily available materials minimizes the costs and time for maintenance; this allows its durability.

The feasibility within the $ 10,000 is demonstrated by this preliminary budget.